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So, I decided against the bicentennial man scene and chose the Fight Club scene. I thought that I could create a better image if I chose this scene. It gave me the ability to create a whole image and scene rather than just a model. I used the same thought I had earlier when browsing through stock. I wanted to use an underground car park and create the dark and bloody scene like the film. Here is what I have produced.

I started out with this image which is already a dark setting and a nice yellow light. This picture was too wide for my liking and I decided to crop it and focus on the wall in the centre. As the setting was underground I decided to give it a damp feel by adding damp, moss patches. I have created damp and water stains from the drain on the leftFor the characters I chose to take the pictures myself. I started with the guy that was ‘knocked out’ from a fight. I needed him to be slumped up against the wall, as if exhausted. I used a person with a slightly muscular form already, which is what the film is about. I cut him out of this picture and laid him on the new image. I had to make him lighter as the original was too dark. Along with this I enhanced the muscles by increasing shadowed areas and increasing the lightened areas. I added some blood trickling down the face with lasso tool and fill with red and changed the layer mode to soft light. The same technique was used to create the blood trickle on the floor from the body. Some bruising was made with the brush tool. I then added to the theme of damp and dark underground car park by making some dirty driping from the ceiling. I wanted to have the guy who beat up the other guy in the shot as well. He needed to be bigger and seem dominating. Again I took the pictures myself to get the right shot. I wanted a close uo of the guys back and shoulders. Here is the original and edit. I cut him out and added shadows an lighting to emphasise the muscles. A shadow has been added from the main light in the picture to create a better atmosphere. This was created using brightness/contrast.

For the front cover I have decided to use the large 5 page spread as my focal point. The image i am using is one which I have taken myself. The images within the 5 page spread are also my own. The logo also defines the whole feel of the magazine… so it had to be right. A bold text mixed with a nice curved text works well.

The end result of the magazine, I feel, has been a success. I achieved what I set out to by creating a new style for an existing magazine. I successfully change at the target market of the magazine to a higher class of audience. There is now a clean house style which is common throughout. I feel that taking some pictures of my own and looking at existing magazines in detail, allowed me to better understand the way the magazine needed to be. I feel i could have designed the magazine better if i hadn’t copied the same text and used a dummy text to allow me to focus on the design. This is something I can have a go at next time.

The main article in this magazine is a 5 page spread which I have used my own photographs for. Some of the shapes are recreated here form previous pages. Which is consistent with the theme of the magazine.